Thread-local Member Variables?

[Sean Kelly]

dsimcha Wrote:

> Should there be a way, in D, to create a variable that's local to both a
> thread and a class instance?  For example:
> 
> class Foo {
>     __thread uint num;
> }
> 
> num would basically be a reference to thread-local storage, with a new one
> created for every instance of Foo.  Is there a (non-hacky) way to do this already?

I'd think that static member variables already work this way.  I can't see this working for class instance variables though--the amount of storage required would vary based on the number of executing threads.